Med Center hosts a free clinic at Fair

The University of Nebraska Medical Center is sponsoring free health screenings at the Nebraska State Fair.The screenings, conducted through the UNMC College of Nursing's Mobile Nursing Center, will be in the Bob Devaney Sports Center from Aug. 22 to Sept. 1. The hours are 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.

There will also be special hours Friday, Aug. 22, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Monday, Sept. 1, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Assessments for facial sun damage, blood pressure, height, weight and body mass index will be available every day, as will take-home kits for colon cancer. Other tests will only be available certain days.

Prostate cancer screenings and total cholesterol tests will be available on Aug. 23, Aug. 24, Aug. 29, Aug. 30 and Aug. 31. Oral cancer checks will be available on Aug. 23 and Aug. 24. Glucose tests can be performed on Aug. 22, Aug. 25, Aug. 28 and Sept. 1.

Anyone with abnormal test results will be contacted by UNMC. Educational material about reducing the risk of cancer will also be available.

The screenings are provided by UNMC's Eppley Cancer Center and are funded by a grant from Prevent Cancer Foundation, which has provided more than $97 million in support of cancer prevention research, education and outreach. The foundation also supports screenings at the Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and South Dakota state fairs.